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James Prosek is an artist and writer whose work explores the distance between the living world and the systems humans use to divide, name, and represent it. Rooted in close observation and field experience, his practice moves between order and mystery, attending to what names and images can reveal and what inevitably escapes them.

Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Prosek draws upon the histories of art and natural science to explore interconnectedness, memory, and the shifting boundaries between nature and culture.

He has published more than a dozen books and exhibited internationally at institutions including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

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Exhibition Highlight

Art, Artifact, Artifice

February 14, 2020–February 28, 2021
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel St
New Haven, CT 06510

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Latest Exhibitions, Publications, and Events

View fullsize Thinking of trees and shadows and memory on a recent visit to the Hood Museum of Art @hoodmuseum … watercolor study in Lyme, NH... exploring properties under the stewardship of Upper Valley Land Trust, including Pinnacle Hill. Excursion to Ca
View fullsize Recent visit to San Antonio … Thank you @emilyjbneff for a truly wonderful visit near and far !!! #edwardsaquifer #missionreach #sanmarcosriver #acequias #missionsanjose #sanantoniomuseumofart #hillcountry #guadalupebass #texascichlid Thank yo
View fullsize Repost from the San Antonio Museum of Art @sama_art see link in bio for more details about the event In Dialogue: Art and Environment with James Prosek and Kelly Lyons ⏱️ Friday, September 27 | 6:00–7:00 p.m. Join us for a discussion of the
View fullsize Two shows I have work in close this weekend… Karma A Particular Kind of Heaven July 21–September 1, 2024 70 Main Street, Thomaston, ME In @anncraven ‘s church … And Rivers Flow / Artists Connect February 2–Septem
View fullsize Recent trip up Mount Washington, New Hampshire in the White Mountains to see a native paintbrush flower Castilleja septentrionalis (perhaps the only native Indian paintbrush species left in New England)… which we found growing on the rim of Tu
View fullsize Speaking tonight with others as part of an Explorers Club event at the Westport Public Library. See more information on Library website. Thank you @richardwiese “From Westport to Mt. Everest to Outer Space: Embark on Your Own Adventure with
View fullsize Burned lodgepole pine… remnant from 1988 Yellowstone fire … northern part of the park … #Montana #yellowstone #castilleja #yellowstonecutthroat …
View fullsize For anyone in Yosemite National Park I’m speaking today July 28th in Tuolomne Meadows as part of the Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Series … The talk is at 2pm and you have to walk in about a half mile from the trailhead across the meadow
View fullsize Thrilled to have two works in “A Particular Kind of Heaven” curated by Karma Gallery @karmakarma9 in Thomaston, Maine. The show opened Sunday July 21st and is up through September 1st. Please take a look if you are passing by ! See las
View fullsize A mention of my book on Eels in last week’s New Yorker @newyorkermag in an article about the glass eel fishery in Maine by Paige Williams, reminded me of how many years I spent researching eels, traveling to Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Micrones
View fullsize Thank you @joborggallery for showing my work along with that of Sean Cavanaugh in your beautiful space in Malta over the last few weeks ! #malta #moths thank you @waqas_wajahat
View fullsize My show Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie had its final day on Sunday at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art after a nice long run … Ironically for me I had to go to Texas and immerse myself in the history of native grasslands